Teacher and Student

[ROBINKRAUSE]

Is it possible for a person who is listed as an instructor for a course to also be a student with the ability to complete the course?  I have created a district course with mandatory trainings that I also have to take myself.  Do I need to create an additional course for me to be a student?

[greydon · Accepted solution]

Hello @ROBINKRAUSE 

Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with creating a dual teacher/student account in a course. Ideally, you should have a separate email on file  to access this as a teacher and student. While it is possible using the sections (teacher in one - student  in the other)  it may get messy with tracking your grades and  giving you  the right permissions for each  role.  Having a second (personal?) email on file that you're  registered for  as a student would  be best.  You could also stay logged in on say two different browsers if  you have two so you aren't constantly logging  in and out. Hopefully this helps!  

[greydon · Accepted solution]

Hello @ROBINKRAUSE 

Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with creating a dual teacher/student account in a course. Ideally, you should have a separate email on file  to access this as a teacher and student. While it is possible using the sections (teacher in one - student  in the other)  it may get messy with tracking your grades and  giving you  the right permissions for each  role.  Having a second (personal?) email on file that you're  registered for  as a student would  be best.  You could also stay logged in on say two different browsers if  you have two so you aren't constantly logging  in and out. Hopefully this helps!  

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Good evening, @ROBINKRAUSE ...

I'll just add to @greydon's response that while it technically would be possible to be enrolled as both a Teacher and a Student in the same course (I think you just add the user again with a different role), it is not something that I would recommend doing...especially if your course uses third-party LTI integrations.  I recall testing this a few years back in a course for one of our instructors (as he wanted to see what things looked like from a student perspective).  However, when the instructor was enrolled in the course as both a Teacher and a Student, his access to the third-party LTI tool (I think in this case, it was Turnitin or some other book publisher tool) became more limited.  I think the LTI tool got confused as to what role the instructor really had in the course, and so it was having difficulties displaying the LTI content.  As soon as I removed the Student role from his course in Canvas, he was able to access the LTI tool again as an instructor without issue.

I hope this extra bit of information will be of help to you in some way.